Extracellular vesicles and Ebola virus: a new mechanism of immune evasion

ML Pleet, C DeMarino, SW Stonier, JM Dye… - Viruses, 2019 - mdpi.com
Ebola virus (EBOV) disease can result in a range of symptoms anywhere from virtually
asymptomatic to severe hemorrhagic fever during acute infection. Additionally, spans of …

Extracellular vesicle storm during the course of Ebola virus infection in primates

A Vucetic, A Lafleur, M Côté, D Kobasa… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Ebola virus (EBOV) is an RNA virus of the Filoviridae family that is responsible
for outbreaks of hemorrhagic fevers in primates with a lethality rate as high as 90%. EBOV …

Ebola virus VP40 modulates cell cycle and biogenesis of extracellular vesicles

ML Pleet, J Erickson, C DeMarino… - The Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Ebola virus (EBOV) mainly targets myeloid cells; however, extensive death of T
cells is often observed in lethal infections. We have previously shown that EBOV VP40 in …

Ebola VP40 in exosomes can cause immune cell dysfunction

ML Pleet, A Mathiesen, C DeMarino… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Ebola virus (EBOV) is an enveloped, ssRNA virus from the family Filoviridae capable of
causing severe hemorrhagic fever with up to 80–90% mortality rates. The most recent …

The role of exosomal VP40 in Ebola virus disease

ML Pleet, C DeMarino, B Lepene, MJ Aman… - DNA and Cell …, 2017 - liebertpub.com
Ebola virus (EBOV) can cause a devastating hemorrhagic disease, leading to death in a
short period of time. After infection, the resulting EBOV disease results in high levels of …

Ebola virus glycoprotein directly triggers T lymphocyte death despite of the lack of infection

M Iampietro, P Younan, A Nishida, M Dutta… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Fatal outcomes of Ebola virus (EBOV) infections are typically preceded by a 'sepsis-
like'syndrome and lymphopenia despite T cells being resistant to Ebola infection. The …

Ebola virus enters host cells by macropinocytosis and clathrin-mediated endocytosis

P Aleksandrowicz, A Marzi, N Biedenkopf… - The Journal of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Virus entry into host cells is the first step of infection and a crucial determinant of
pathogenicity. Here we show that Ebola virus-like particles (EBOV-VLPs) composed of the …

[HTML][HTML] The lifecycle of the Ebola virus in host cells

DS Yu, TH Weng, XX Wu, FXC Wang, XY Lu, HB Wu… - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Ebola haemorrhagic fever causes deadly disease in humans and non-human primates
resulting from infection with the Ebola virus (EBOV) genus of the family Filoviridae. However …

Ebola virus shed glycoprotein is toxic to human T, B, and natural killer lymphocytes

LJ Perez-Valencia, KM Vannella, MJ Ramos-Benitez… - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Lymphocyte depletion is a distinctive feature of Ebola virus (EBOV) disease. The
ectodomain of EBOV glycoprotein (GP) is cleaved off the surface of infected cells into …

Immune barriers of Ebola virus infection

AK McElroy, E Mühlberger, C Munoz-Fontela - Current opinion in virology, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Species-specific restrictions control EBOV cell entry.•EBOV-encoded proteins
block the type I IFN response in infected cells.•Most humans are immunologically naïve to …